Timer in Multiboard

[Silja]

I'm creating TD, but i was able to create few things.

I want to have 2-3 timers in multiboard.

1 timer for Next wave.
2nd timer for Game elapsed?

iIs this possible?

 

[Nichilus]

AFAIK you can't create timer in multiboard like you can easily create a single timer in a timer window, however it's not that complicated to imitate one - simply fill one column with the time left and for example every 0.1 second update the multiboard.

You can either have 1 loop trigger per timer - it's easy to set up; or have 1 loop trigger for all timers - this requires a bit of logic to put behind it, thus complicated things a tiny bit, but it's far more effective.

 

[Silja]

What i did is i made variable set it to 30. made multiboard and showed in column 1 static text and column 2 variable .

made 2 triggers



1nd
check if var is 0 or less
event:
every 0.5 sec

Condition:
if var is equal 0

Action:
set var: Var = 0

then i made trigger to update multiboard
Event:
every 1 sec

actions:
set var: var is greater than 0
multiboard set to colum 2 row x to that var


This should work...but it get's reduced form 30 to 29 and stucks at 29

 

[13oot-Me]

Please post the triggers with trigger tags so we can see why it's getting stuck at 29. How to Easily Post Triggers

You'll want to combine the update with the same trigger that tracks the timers, something like this...

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• Untitled Trigger 002
  • Events
    • Time - Every 1.00 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • -------- wave timer --------
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • i_timer_1 Less than or equal to 0
      • Then - Actions
        • Set i_timer_1 = 30
        • -------- your other actions for the wave --------
      • Else - Actions
        • Set i_timer_1 = (i_timer_1 - 1)
    • -------- elapsed game time tracker --------
    • Set i_timer_2 = (i_timer_2 + 1)
    • -------- update your timers --------
    • Multiboard - Set the text for board item in column 2, row 1 to (String(i_timer_1))
    • Multiboard - Set the text for board item in column 2, row 2 to (String(i_timer_2))

If you want something a bit more complex to either wait for the wave to be over before the wave timer starts again or show the elapsed game time as "hh:mm:ss" that will take a bit more effort.

 

[Wietlol]

Make one trigger that runs every 1 second.
Reduce an integer variable by one in its actions.
If the value is bigger than 0, you update the display, if it is equal to zero, you also update the display but also do the stuff that you want to do.